mIEKAL
'Syntaxophone,' the band, created, well, some terrible music but a lot of
moments that I will ever remember: blues collided with punk and jazz was
tortured with folk. Considering that we were mostly poets I can't understand
how I was ever cajoled into singing. My voice back in 1978 was gravel (now
it's the ocean floor), so one can say I helped to strangle the project
directly. Martin Stannard rightly refused to sing and his work worked. K. M.
Dersley was the only one who could sing and was good on guitar.
However, some of what we did was exciting, so it was more like 5 -3 than 5 -
0! More than anything I'd like to work with a bass player, for gravel on
gravel would be interesting these days.
Rupert
PS - we had endless meetings as to what to call ourselves. I'd written a
long jazzy style poem and there we found 'Syntaxophone.' The poem goes
something like this:-
sole atti-tude
rude soli-tude
you bruise my bones
& scrape my veins
when i'm alone &
i don't wanna be alone
i wanna play my syntaxophone
i wanna listen to my gramophone
i wanna grappa drop-a grape vine
fine
wine &
i wanna make her mine-ALL-mine...
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Not bad from memory eh?
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